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Because you keep calling people who buy into bad companies “smart”?

At this point, you’d have to wonder why Google is still in the retail hardware business.

https://www.theverge.com/23874281/google-pixel-watch-cracks-no-repairs-warranty

nostr:npub160wpnkve9m46we9nusfg0qfuvfnkr2tm3thpvm99tdeevdq2sqxqfkrlj6 Yes, nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g keeps a VisiCalc spreadsheet of all admissible “Yes” indulgences sold to companies and people of fame and riches.

nostr:npub1j2u9eh82htfgwjhkr2p8ezpkvpwgnkza8qh3q906569lsln7fmrsjwc034 What if it was an earnest attempt by Microsoft to educate an entire generation in the benefits of saving your work early and often?!

nostr:npub1c0mw8utq9avw4wy7w39hzt3ugurg7f8jcn9qmqqpswkc6alwxhjsevxqjl Does “Burning Man” refer to anthropogenic increase in atmosphere temperature 🤔

nostr:npub129hy4ks3znggpc53w2pc972pmjsh9yftesua6nudx7plfzyyeugsmny2hs It is collectivist mind melt of all men, a Bolshevik plot.

FACT: ”Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves”

What’s the prompt engineering trick that lets ChatGPT rewrite any article headline in the “style” of NYTimes headlines?

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194202562/new-york-times-considers-legal-action-against-openai-as-copyright-tensions-swirl

nostr:npub129hy4ks3znggpc53w2pc972pmjsh9yftesua6nudx7plfzyyeugsmny2hs Early days. It’s only the Model A. 25 more atrocities where it came from.

FACT: The number of people on social media who are qualified to run a $3-trillion company is up 23% year-over-year.

Replying to Avatar David Wheeler

nostr:npub1c0mw8utq9avw4wy7w39hzt3ugurg7f8jcn9qmqqpswkc6alwxhjsevxqjl Yeah, but as plain text. Thought it would be fine to convert photos in the .text files on the blog. Fooled with it a bit years ago, but have often wondered whether there might be some Unicode code points set aside to mimic it.

https://justatheory.com/2018/06/plain-text-figures/

nostr:npub1v996pusuzms7r8zld04rqggmk76sqz87fzc2uhup4khjsauhzanqs3xhpf I see.

(You could propose an extension to Unicode just for this purpose, obviously :)

Replying to Avatar David Wheeler

Anyone tried automating turning an image (like a photo) into Unicode code points that mimic the photo like old newspaper halftoning? https://drewish.com/projects/unicoder/ looks interesting, the photo I uploaded translated to super long lines, or else looked best when the font size was tiny.

nostr:npub1v996pusuzms7r8zld04rqggmk76sqz87fzc2uhup4khjsauhzanqs3xhpf Are you just trying to get the stipple effect?

If no fonts/glyphs is OK, this looks like it can be automated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEvVUg_gqEk

If the title of a book cover could smartly summarize the whole book sans any graphics with just a single strikethrough:

Which surprised you the most, in that it works at scale at all?

a) Kickstarter

b) GoFundMe

c) Wikipedia

d) Stack Overflow